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Lead Image from: https://miro.medium.com/max/3840/1*mLqtKV1FjUg-WKlLW-cXjQ.jpeg Most new developers wonder which database is suitable for their project since they don't want to get off on the wrong foot. So, first and foremost, let's define a database. A database is a type of storage facility that electronically stores and organizes data so that it may be utilized and accessed later. Some databases are superior to others in that they are easier to use, have more capability, or are more secure. Some databases are ranked higher by beginners than others based on these features. So there you have it, the rankings and why they are rated the way they are. These are the top 3 best and easiest databases to use according to beginners. 1. Firebase Image via: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YIfQT6q8ZM4/Vzyq5z1B8HI/AAAAAAAAAAc/UmWSSMLKtKgtH7CACElUp12zXkrPK5UoACLcB/s1600/image00.png Firebase is a Google application that provides developers with a variety of tools for creating web and mobile applications. Since Firebase is accessible via the web, it is simple to utilize and fast to set up. Other than being a database, Firebase offers hosting and storage. It also has two databases: a realtime database and a firestore database. Due to the fact, Firebase is an all-in-one package for developers, it is ideal for newcomers. Here are some of the reasons why Firebase is superior to the competition: Easy to Use Firebase is the most user-friendly and simple to use of all the databases mentioned. It offers all of the benefits of MongoDB and MySQL. Firebase offers strong documentation, it's web-based, so it's simple to set up, and it provides extra features that could come in helpful later on, such as hosting, storage, and so on. Firebase provides the most detailed database documentation; it describes each step and what it does. Making it a cakewalk for beginner developers to use. Here’s the to the documentation. link Fast and Safe Firebase is one of the fastest running programs because it is a cloud service, which makes it faster than many servers. This indicates that its database is among the fastest in the world, with queries that are faster than those of most NoSQL databases. Firebase is quite safe. One of the reasons is that it is owned by Google, one of the world's largest technology companies. The safety of the application is determined on the server-side, which means that the person in charge can create all of the rules, provide read and write access, and do a variety of other things to make the owner's program as secure as possible. Firebase has only one disadvantage: Hard to use for large/complex projects: Large structured data is difficult to discover in Firebase, which is inconvenient because practically every other database permits it. 2. MongoDB Image via: https://www.cloudsavvyit.com/p/uploads/2021/07/f5932bc2.jpg?width=1198&trim=1,1&bg-color=000&pad=1,1 MongoDB is one of the most popular NoSQL databases in the world due to its user-friendly documentation, scalability, and a variety of other capabilities that other databases do not provide. MongoDB, like MySQL, is utilized by many corporations, including Uber, Lyft, and AWS technologies. MongoDB is simple to use and can be used on a resume to attract employers. The following are some of the reasons why MongoDB is regarded as one of the top NoSQL databases: Detailed Documentation: People frequently overlook the importance of documentation, particularly for newcomers. Developers' lives are made so much easier by good documentation. This is due to the fact that they do not have to go looking for assistance or answers. When they can just rely on the documentation provided by the database. This is the to the documentation. link Easy to Set Up: MongoDB is one of the world's most user-friendly databases. It is intended for use by beginners in their projects. Everything that needs to be done is detailed in the documentation. MongoDB typically takes about 1-2 hours to download, set up, and understand. It is quicker and simpler to set up than MySQL. Some of the disadvantages of using MongoDB: Indexing If the code has discrepancies or the indexing has not been implemented correctly MongoDB will perform at a very low speed. Transactions Multi-document ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability) transactions are used by MongoDB. This is a limitation because it can lead to the corruption of data. Joins Document joining in MongoDB can be a time-consuming process. As a relational database, it does not support joins. 3. MySQL Image via: https://cdn.liveagent.com/app/uploads/2020/11/MySQL-Logo.png MySQL is open-source, simple to use, and well-known in the programming business by large corporations. MySQL is used by several large firms, including Twitter, Airbnb, Netflix, and Amazon, among others. So studying MySQL not only makes projects easier to complete, but it is also something that can be added to one's resume. Here are some of the more detailed explanations: Reliable Preventing the leakage of private data is always vital for anyone who uses the internet. Fortunately, MySQL ensures data security and provides a variety of encryption options. These data encryption measures prohibit unauthorized people from reading the data. When attempts to hack the database are identified, MySQL immediately stops them. Data backup is also a useful feature because it enables data recovery at any moment. Secure Individuals place a high value on money, and most people find money transfer to be a stressful experience. Fortunately, MySQL is used for monetary transactions; it is a single unit, which implies that if one stage of the transaction fails, the entire process fails. This is beneficial because if the stage fails, the money will not be sent until the entire procedure is completed. Some of the disadvantages of using MySQL: Cannot be scaled MySQL cannot be scaled due to the flexibility of the query syntax. Slow with older versions The old MySQL versions have bugs in them and are really slow, even the newer versions can be slow from time to time. Few stability issues MySQL is unreliable and it tends to crash after a few weeks of it working perfectly fine. In conclusion, all of the databases mentioned are excellent, and it ultimately comes down to personal opinion, however, most beginners who use these databases agree that Firebase is the best. Firebase is designed for those who are just starting out in programming; once that phase is through, databases like MongoDB and MySQL become a better option.

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AWS EKS + Terraform + Cloudskiff do the job In this article I explain how to spin up an AWS EKS cluster in 1 min of work, and get Terraform code out of it for reproducibility and easy cleanup. That’s done with Cloudskiff, a CI/CD for infrastructure as code. Setting up new environments in EKS is a little tedious, and requires a lot of point and click work if you do it through the console. Plus if something messes up, or you just want to shut it all down, you end up with a shitload of work cleaning up your AWS account and getting rid of now useless services. And AWS didn’t make that simple (who designed that CLI again? And , you can’t delete your VPC, there’s a NAT gateway attached to it. And again there is automated cleanup function). no no no The AWS team doesn’t really want to add easy cleanup functions :) https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/1721 . Describe everything as Terraform code, and you get a really easy way to deploy your new dev environment, a way that is reproducible and easy to clean up. And it makes it simpler to do things cleanly, with your environment neatly set up in a VPC for isolation. Enters Terraform Writing, optimizing and running Terraform code is a little tricky, and if you have your infra described as code, you might as well manage it in a CI/CD system like any other code. Right? That’s why that: Cloudskiff is building a CI/CD for infrastructure as code Day 1: makes getting started with infrastructure as code more approachable. Day 2+: streamlines versioning, acts as the central place for automation, and enables collaboration around your templates and deployments . We’re talking about AWS here, but Cloudskiff connects to other cloud providers too. So let’s dive into it. Start the timer, and let’s see how we launch a small dev cluster in 2 min of work. Cloudskiff will also generate basic but clean Terraform code for you, that you can then reuse and upgrade to evolve your environment. 1. Create a Cloudskiff account Easy, it’s . here 2. Create a Cloudskiff IAM user in your AWS account Sign into the AWS management console, then user for cloudskiff. I called mine create a new aws IAM cloudskiff. Hit then select Add user programmatic access We will create a new set of policies for this user to secure things up. Cloudskiff needs access to EKS, EC2 and IAM. I created an easy, copy paste friendly permission set right there. [ ]. regularly updated permissions here { : , : [
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} "Version" "2012-10-17" "Statement" "Effect" "Allow" "Action" "ec2:*" "eks:*" "autoscaling:*" "Resource" "*" "Effect" "Allow" "Action" "iam:*" "Resource" "*" You don’t need to add tags. Let’s create this user now. Once you’ve created your user, save your access key and secret key, we’ll need them soon. 3. Add AWS to Cloudskiff Great! We’ve created a new IAM cloudskiff user. Now let’s grant the Cloudskiff platform access using that user. Open the Cloudskiff app Navigate to the on the left Integrations tab Select AWS Enter your credentials, select your favourite AWS region Save. Keep the keys handy, we’ll need them later to configure our local AWS profile. 4. Add permissions on a new infra as code Github repo Cloudskiff will generate Terraform code for your infrastructure and save it in your repo. So we need to create a github repo that we want it to push to. Create a new Github repository. Let’s call it private cloudskiff-dev-eks Go to Cloudskiff’s and select integrations tab Github Connect your Github account Note: Cloudskiff only needs access to the specific repo where you Terraform code will be stored. 5. Cool. Let’s deploy an EKS cluster The setup is complete. You’ll only have to do steps 1, 2, 3, 4 once. Now let’s see how we can launch an EKS cluster. Move to the Cloudskiff dashboard. That’s where you will monitor all your clusters, and launch new ones. Hit New Project. Select . Templates are preconfigured EKS cluster that help you get started. You still have access to the behind it. Templates Terraform Pick a name for your project Select as the provider AWS Select your usual region We’ll deploy a small cluster of scaling between 1 and 3 machines. You can always come back to it and launch something more serious afterwards :) t3.nano Enter your ssh public key ( to get it real quick on most systems). It should look like . cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ssh-rsa BLABLABLA Select your brand new cloudskiff-dev-eks repo Hit Save You should land back to your dashboard, and tadaaaam: our project is there. 9. Hit Deploy! Our project will start, and we can monitor the progress in the Logs. 5. Relax and check out the Terraform code we’ve generated See that github logo? Hit it and you’ll land on your repository. The Terraform code that is executing right now has been stored on that repo. That means it is versioned, traced, and in case there is trouble you can roll back to older versions. GitOps become easier. cloudskiff-dev-eks Meanwhile, AWS is doing its thing, starting the EKS cluster, VPCs, autoscaling groups described in this Terraform. I am guessing you already are using AWS routinely, and you have the AWS CLI setup. If not,  Let’s take a look at that. 6. Setup your local environment All you need to do is : 1. Create a Cloudskiff profile in your AWS credentials file, so that you can access your machines with your IAM. cloudskiff aws_access_key_id = .. aws_secret_access_key = [cloudskiff]
aws_access_key_id = .. 
aws_secret_access_key = .. #you probably already have something here #here too #Create this # told you we'd need that later 2. Set your local environment variables and . should contain the path to your file. We will download it from Cloudskiff later, so let’s just prepare a folder to save it, for example and define the to point to the . $KUBECONFIG $AWS_PROFILE KUBECONFIG kubeconfig $HOME/code/cloudskiff/config/aws KUBECONFIG file AWS_PROFILE=cloudskiff; KUBECONFIG= /code/cloudskiff/config/aws/kubeconfig-dev-cluster; export #the path to where you will store your kubeconfig file export $HOME 7. Connect Wait a few minutes (10–15) for AWS to assign resources. At some point, your project will be deployed (you will see a green ball in the UI). 1. Get the kubeconfig from the Cloudskiff dashboard 2. Rename it to .Then move it to or the place of your choosing, as long as it matches your kubeconfig-dev-cluster ~/code/cloudskiff/config/kubeconfig-dev-cluster $AWS_PROFILE 3. Check: . It should output something like that: echo $AWS_PROFILE; echo $KUBECONFIG AWS_PROFILE: cloudskiff
KUBECONFIG: ~/code/cloudskiff/config/aws/kubeconfig-dev-cluster 4. Now run , or if you prefer. You’re in! Cluster deployed! kubectl get nodes k9s (8. Destroy) To destroy your cluster and cleanup everything, well: just hit the button on Cloudskiff. Everything will be cleaned up automatically and ready for a re-deploy! Destroy Debrief Reading this, you might think I took more than 2 min, because I sprayed screenshots everywhere. Thinking about it, most of the things I did were just one-off for setup: (only once) Create a Cloudskiff account (only once) Create an IAM (only once) add it to Cloudskiff (only once) add permissions on a new infra as code Github repo Select 5 options Press a Deploy button (only once) make sure my local AWS profile was configured Get a kubeconfig Connect! Only 5, 6, 8, 9 are steps you need to do for each deployment, and they are mostly buttons to press or single lines of command. I hope you liked that! We haven’t looked in detail in the terraform code together, so I will keep that for an upcoming post. Don’t hesitate to reach out about this tutorial! , and . I am a Product Manager at Cloudskiff, and write about infra in my spare time. You can find other posts on Venturebeat Twitter To contact me, use <my-weird-first-name>@cloudskiff.com Previously published at https://www.cloudskiff.com/how-to-launch-eks-cluster-terraform

I Got a New EKS Cluster Running And Terraform Code in 2 minutes

Initiated by , a Swiss based IT and cloud provider with a proven track record of 17 years of successful operations in various countries and one of the cloud pioneers in Europe, provides high quality services and products in the field of cloud computing. Founded in 2001 by André Matter, Netkom IT Services GmbH developed early through various consulting mandates and IT projects as a specialist for IT strategy and its implementation in the operational IT infrastructures and organization of the respective customers. The latter were well-known large companies from Switzerland and abroad such as Citibank or ABB Turbo Systems. In the following years, further core competences in the fields of transformation and digitization have been established. Netkom IT Services GmbH n’cloud.swiss AG Swiss made alternative to Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and other major cloud providers Since small and medium-sized enterprises are generally unable to afford one’s own datacentre infrastructures, Netkom built its own cloud platform for this segment already in 2009 under the name n’cloud. Today, the platform is considered as a serious “Swiss made” alternative to the major cloud providers like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. With the expertise and experience as a specialist for IT strategy and its implementation in the operational IT infrastructures and organization of the respective customers, n’cloud.swiss AG is expanding on the international level and aiming to provide their products and services to a worldwide market range. Nowadays, cloud computing is the promise of having a modern and state-of-the-art IT infrastructure without the need for substantial capital investments and personnel increases. The cloud market revenue is expected to double in the next three years reaching up to 162 billion USD. Here is where the huge potential of n’cloud.swiss AG of establishing as a Swiss/European alternative to the leading cloud providers becomes clear. n’cloud.swiss n’cloud.swiss heralds a new era in cloud computing n’cloud.swiss stands for a new era in cloud computing. In contrast to many cloud providers, this innovative cloud platform is capable of addressing and serving all cloud deployment requirements such as private, public, hybrid and community cloud. In addition, all cloud service models from Infrastructure- over Platform- to Software-as-a-Service models are included within this same product. The advantage for customers range from agility, flexibility and adaptability to a maximum amount of freedom to build their cloud according to their needs. In addition, all cloud service models from Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), over Platform as a Service (PaaS) to Software as a Service (SaaS) are part of the platform. All this is surrounded by an innovative internal n’cloud.swiss application catalogue. Within the latter, n’cloud.swiss offers more than 142 applications from 30 different IT categories “free and ready to go” as well as the opportunity to upload also other development applications and tools easily. Along personal support and competitive pricing models, API connectivity for easy and fast transfers of existing developments from or to other major cloud platforms award n’cloud.swiss a unique selling point and a competitive advantage. n’cloud.swiss features demo The establishment of n’cloud.swiss across the globe with the launch of an ICO The number of ICO launches nowadays has reached a level making difficult for investors to stay on top of things. More than ever, ICOs of established companies are in demand given the fact that the number of scams is high as well as the number of ICOs leading to projects that fail. is truly the ICO of a proven business case. The particularity here clearly is the fact that investing in this ICO signifies investing in a real company distinguished by a successful record of accomplishment and existing customers. However, the question arises why such a company plans to launch an ICO. The target for n’cloud.swiss is to achieve a substantial market share in the global cloud market for IaaS, PaaS, SaaS services in the next 5 years. Consequently, as a decisive step towards its establishment as the undisputed alternative to the major cloud providers, n’cloud.swiss ICO has been launched to successfully expand and rollout the existing business operations into 60 additional countries around the world. is divided into two main stages. While the Pre-ICO will be held from April 14th to April 29th, 2018, the main ICO event will take place from April 30th to July 8th, 2018. During these two events of ICO, investors can buy tokens. As the first and only company in the world**, n’cloud.swiss AG** is offering to investors the unique service of managing their tokens. The idea behind is to open up the doors to unexperienced ICO investors and allow them to benefit from the company’s success. The ICO of n’cloud.swiss The n’cloud.swiss ICO www.ncloud.swiss/ICO US Cloud Act or how foreign laws do not matter anymore While the U.S. Congress recently approved the CLOUD Act for data stored overseas and strictly speaking opened a back door for the FBI, CIA, and NSA to intercept virtually anyone without any court order, the need for an alternative to the major cloud providers becomes probably greater than ever. A market that is dominated by four American (Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and IBM Softlayer) and one Chinese (Alibabcloud), definitely presents numerous possibilities for . “Swiss made” high quality standards in terms of security and reliability in setup and operation of fail-safe cluster-systems can present for the company a valuable competitive advantage. On the other hand, investors in this ICO will be able to join a company with a huge potential, contribute to its international expansion and establishment and benefit from a success story in the making. n’cloud.swiss AG

Increasingly strong and serious competition from Switzerland for Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure & Co.

Image: n’cloud.swiss Zug is not just a beautiful Swiss city with a beautiful lake; Zug has become known worldwide as “Crypto Valley” — the Silicon Valley for cryptocurrencies. Leading technology experts, innovative companies as well as techies and nerds from numerous countries come to Zug to start new exciting projects, introduce new companies in this area, meet interesting people from all over the world or simply get a taste of the scene. aims to build the world’s leading blockchain and cryptographic technology ecosystem. In this context, the event “First Tuesday Drinks & Networking together with n’cloud.swiss AG from Seengen and Crypto Explorers from the Silicon Valley” was held on May 1st. The Crypto Valley Association During this event, Founder and Chairman André Matter and Chief Marketing Officer Pascal Dossenbach presented the company n’cloud.swiss AG. In addition to the innovative cloud platform , the launch of its own digital cryptocurrency named NCU Token was also presented to an international audience of investors, cryptospecialists and interested trade visitors. www.ncloud.swiss For ambitious growth plans in up to 60 countries over the next 7 years, the company, which is still financed independently, is also open to investors and other forms of external financing opportunities. For this reason, the ICO project was launched. The NCU utility token also serves n’cloud.swiss customers as the digital currency for discounted purchase of n’cloud.swiss services and products, but may also be purchased or sold in the foreseeable future at so-called exchanges (stock exchange venues) which is extremely attractive for investors. n’cloud.swiss AG emerged from an initiative of Netkom IT Services GmbH based in Seengen, Switzerland. Netkom has been successfully active in the IT market in Switzerland and abroad for 17 years, and is also active in various areas, for example as an IT partner for . n’cloud.swiss AG is the Swiss cloud response to Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud & Co. The innovative cloud platform offers all cloud models from the pure public cloud to the ON-PREM or hybrid cloud with numerous cloud services within one and the same software. The application possibilities are therefore practically unlimited, so that developers, software companies, SMEs, consulting companies up to large international corporations from all branches of industry or services can flexibly cover their cloud needs. Swiss Golf House For more information about the ICO, cloud services or about the company, visit or . For Investor Relations, CEO André Matter is looking forward to your call at +41 (0) 62 511 82 82. www.ncloud.swiss www.netkom.ch

n’cloud.swiss — The Swiss cloud alternative to Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud & Co.

React is an open source JavaScript library created by Facebook for building user interfaces. By using React for web development, a developer can easily manage the content and data of a website. According to one of the recent statistics, React is currently used in more than 45% of websites that are currently on the Internet. Major brands such as Netflix, Facebook, Instagram etc. are powered by React. And that is not all! In 2015, Facebook announced React Native, a new JavaScript library that brings the React architecture to native Android, iOS, and UWP applications. In this post, I will talk about the top 10 React development companies in India. 1. GeekyAnts Founded in the year 2006, is a Bangalore based technology company that specialises in web and mobile app development. GeekyAnts is known for creating web and mobile applications using Node, React, React Native, Angular, Firebase, GraphQL, and many other technologies. They are always excited to experiment with new technologies and are one of the early adopters of Google’s Flutter, Vue, and Kotlin. GeekyAnts is all about building industry leading software products, delighting their customers, and giving back to the developer community. GeekyAnts is well known for its open source contributions such as — a UI components library for React Native. Their products always have an out-of-the-box characteristic to it. , which is another product of , is a design tool that will write React Native code for you! GeekyAnts NativeBase BuilderX GeekyAnts also sells premium content such as starter kits, full apps, UI themes , and animations on . GeekyAnts NativeBase Market : Website https://goo.gl/gP9wDt 2. WebClues Infotech is a web and mobile app design and development company that delivers effective and successful solutions. They are known to deliver to various services such as web development, branding, cloud computing, web design, and mobile app development. WebClues Infotech Since its inception in 2014, has strived to become the optimal solution to your needs in terms of Website Development, Web Design, Web Hosting, Enterprise Solutions, Android and iOS Technology. WebClues Infotech : Website https://www.webcluesinfotech.com/ Inwizards is a highly structured, performance oriented and customer centric organization. follows the concept of development and sustainable to bring about a change in quality of services and business. Inwizards Inwizards Started in 2009, is specialized in Website & Mobile App Development, E-Commerce Solutions, React, React Native, Phonegap, Titanium, etc. Inwizards : Website https://inwizards.com/ 4. CronJ As one of its early adopters, is one of foremost React development companies in the country. developers are very competent and perseverant. They are well versed in the latest technologies to provide the best services and solutions as and when called upon. CronJ CronJ’s : Website https://www.cronj.com/ 5. DigiFutura is a Bangalore based app development company which specializes in building MVPs for startups. It is focused on creating compelling user experience design digital experiences and building topnotch highly scalable web and mobile applications for startups and SME’s. DigiFutura has been able to successfully deliver exceptional and scalable apps with React, React Native, Node, Ruby on Rails, Python, and Meteor. DigiFutura : Website https://www.digifutura.com/ 6. Bacancy With 130+ developers, situated on 7 different countries, strives to deliver value and high performance at every stage of product development, from planning to delivery. Bacancy Technology : Website https://www.bacancytechnology.com/ 7. Mobiloitte Working for over a decade, is a full service mobile and web app development group. is apt at early adoption of new technologies to always stay ahead of the curve. Mobiloitte Mobiloitte : Website https://www.mobiloitte.com/ 8. Cabot Techonology Solutions is a value based Product Engineering IT firm delivering high value and robust solutions using state-of-the-art technologies. Cabot Founded in 2006, has delivered over 500 project for diverse range of clients across a number of industry sectors. Today has 3 global offices (India, UAE, USA) and over 100 employees. Cabot Cabot : Website https://www.cabotsolutions.com/ 9. Cloudseed Founded in 2015, Technologies is a software development & services company that is focused on Cloud, Mobile, IoT Middleware Intergration and User Experience. Cloudseed : Website https://www.cloudseed.technology/ 10. GoodWorkLabs is a new-age boutique software lab that delivers cutting-edge products and solutions. It was founded in 2013 currently houses around 200 developers and UI/UX designers. GoodWorkLabs is known for its work in: GoodWorkLabs Mobile Apps and Web/Cloud/SaaS Products Enterprise Solutions UX/UI Designs Game Development : Website https://www.goodworklabs.com/ Wrapping Up I have shortlisted these companies based on parameters such as: Keyword Analysis Third-party Websites Customer Satisfaction Ratings Glassdoor Ratings Company portfolio Thank You for reading! Please 👏 if you liked this article.

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India is known for a large pool of talented women entrepreneurs who have made a mark for themselves in India as well as Overseas. Today’s women in India and around the world have proven to be successful entrepreneurs. “From making a social impact to being hands-on with technology to opening up new vistas and inspiring their own, these women are the leaders of today.” ( ) YourStory.com Source: 25 women entrepreneurs to draw inspiration from The likes of Indra Nooyi, who is probaboly one of the most popular Indian women entrepreneurs and President of PepsiCo. and who “helped company garner as much as 30 billion dollars worth of crucial deals within the last couple of years” ( ), inspire many young women India to run successfully their own business. Huda Kattan with her beauty empire , Olga Feldmeier with as the world’s first security token exchange for alternative investments or Tijen Onaran who founded to promote female empowerment in the digital industry show the variety of businesses wherein women are achieving outstanding success. Knowstatup.com Huda Beauty Smart Valor GDW Global Digital Women Swagata Chowdhury A young Indian entrepreneur with whom I have the pleasure to work closely with on different projects is Swagata Chowdhury who founded at the age of 24 in 2016 Pofco Solution Consultancy Services, a Kolkata based software development company. After graduating from the West Bengal University of Technology in Software Engineering and gaining experience as Web Developer in the early days of her career, Swagata’s entrepreneurial mindset made her found Pofco Solution Consultancy Services. With her team, she aims to combines the power of creativity and experience to employ a highly skilled team of IT professionals. With the ambition to become one of the most valued and trusted IT solution partners in the industry in the near future, Swagata wants her company’s brand to be recognized as a global leader in making simplified business processes by offering innovative, cost-effective, customized solutions to customers. Recent growth and expansion into international markets are a clear indication that Swagata and her tram have been successful in reaching their goal to deliver cutting edge IT services. As a result, they joined Switzerland based as an authorized reseller to push ahead with the rollout of n’cloud.swiss as a serious “Swiss made” alternative to the leading cloud providers in the Indian market. n’cloud.swiss AG How did you get involved with startups? What was the idea behind your first company? This has been a dream for me since my childhood. However it has been quite challenging enough taking the decision finally and just venturing out with my very own startup. It has not been a very easy path to take but thinking back it was just the right time to start. I had already gathered experience in the IT industry and my partner and present CTO of Pofco, , has had his part of the experience. Satanik Dutta We started out with a vision of being different. We both had already worked in the IT industry and we were very well aware about the reputation that Indian companies were getting. We planned to break the taboo and bring the best services to client globally. It has been like bringing up a baby for both me and my partner. We have pulled all-nighters. We have been through situations when it seemed like there is no coming back but we have been able to fight through. Till now it has been a journey of a lifetime. We have learned a lot, we have fallen down and then again got up. It was not perfect from the beginning but we have worked on it and tried our best to achieve perfection in every aspect. Still there is a long way to go and we are ready to take the journey. Image: Stanford eCorner — Stanford University What has been your biggest challenge along the way? I come from a very normal family. So having a startup or even dreaming about having one is actually not so financially easy. When I started out with the company, I had already left my jobs and did not get much financial support from anyone. So it is like starting out from zero. We had started out from just a small room as our first office from where we have been able to come up to a better office space within a year and a half. But fortunately, for us whoever we have been working with has been very passionate about what we are trying to achieve. We have worked hard to achieve what we have today and the road to this was not challenging, rather a road worth taking. How important do you think is the process of innovation? Which is the strongest capability of Pofco, what differentiates it from the others? Prof. Clayton M. Christensen once said “Motivation is the catalysing ingredient for every successful innovation”. This applies perfectly to how we work at Pofco and what motivates us to stay innovative. I believe that innovation is vital in the workplace because it gives companies an edge in penetrating markets faster and provides a better connection to developing markets, which can lead to bigger opportunities. Innovation can also help develop original concepts while giving the innovator a proactive, confident attitude to take risks and get things done. When a company has an innovation culture, it will grow more easily, despite the fact that the creative process is not always simple. Tried-and-tested-methods may be reliable, but trying out new things is a worthwhile experiment. Being innovative has been our main mantra to deal with different aspects of our business. We have had to deal with everything ourselves. Being a startup, we were unable to hire much support in most of the cases. This has motivated us to be innovative and bring out original ideas. In consequence, our strongest capability as a company is our passion, our indomitable spirit and the fact that we thrive to be different. You have recently announced through Business Standards that you will be pushing ahead with the roll-out of n’cloud.swiss in the Indian market. How do you evaluate the potential of n’cloud.swiss as “Swiss made” alternative to the likes of Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform? As a company we have been using cloud services for different projects like mobile app development or software application development. However, we have come across issues like lack of instant support or support to set-up projects on cloud and also pricing which was quite high. In addition, often transperency is lacking in the pricing models of the leading cloud providers. The prices for Amazon AWS services are believed to grow exponentially if one is not careful. As an alternative to the major names in cloud services, I feel that n’cloud.swiss as a “Swiss made” alternative has several advantages compare to the major cloud providers. These are Swiss high security standards, cost-effectiveness and transparent pricing models. Support for customers is much better compared to other providers where you are forwarded from one customer services to another. n’cloud.swiss also offers initial support to set-up projects or systems and technical support is given whenever required. The response is also very quick. How do you describe your role as Representative India for n’cloud.swiss AG? What are your goals? Me and my company are pushing ahead with the roll-out of n’cloud.swiss products and services in India. As a representative in India, I plan to get through every company and person in India with the goal to make people in India know n’cloud.swiss as well as they know Amazon, Google or Microsoft. I believe in the potential of n’cloud.swiss and see a huge opportunity for us as Pofco Solution Consultancy Services to grow with them in the coming years. We will put in all our efforts to do so.

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The Pakistani reluctance in investing in an own IT infrastructure is a meaningful sign for the cloud’s potential. Cloud computing omnipresent in today’s Information Technology sector. Considered as the digitization tool par excellence, the cloud has attracted a lot of interest across the globe. As business development progresses, the infrastructure must be able to cope with new modern initiatives and steady growth. With cloud computing the possibility of having a modern and state-of-the-art IT infrastructure without the need for substantial capital investments and personnel increases becomes real. It is therefore not surprising that the cloud market revenue is expected to double in the next three years reaching up to 162 billion USD. However, surprising is the fact that more than 65% of the cloud market is occupied by only a few leading giant providers, mainly American such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. The remaining 35% market share is in the hands of thousands of cloud providers scattered around the world. The basics of what cloud computing is about Salesforce CEO and Chairman Marc Benioff brings it straight to the point. Cloud computing is a better way to run your business according to him. The possibility of improving your business is something that is appealing to every decision maker across the globe. Who thought that the cloud would one day be considered as the digitization tool par excellence. The year 2000 will always be remembered as the millennium of the more and more outstanding pace of technological progress. New and old technologies are as close together as never before. The almost uncontrollable increase in human knowledge leads to endless incremental innovations. The hunt for the next big thing seems to be never ending. Source: The CFO Imperative: Next-Gen Technology Drives Cost Optimization Even though cloud computing still plays that role, one might think that it is being pushed aside by the likes of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Blockchain. Interestingly, most new technologies are distinguished by a huge number of data and intelligence. In other words, “the many disparate servers which are part of cloud technology hold the data which an AI can access and use to make decisions and learn things like how to hold a conversation. But as the AI learns this, it can impart this new data back to the cloud, which can thus help other AIs learn as well” as noticed Gary Eastwood from the IDG Contributor Network. Same goes for blockchain and other data intensive technology. Cloud computing plays undoubtedly a key role in today’s technological progress. The cloud, in other words, providing IT resources and on-demand applications over the Internet at usage-based prices Whether you run apps that share photos with millions of mobile users or support critical business operations in your organization, the cloud is a technology providing quick access to flexible and cost-effective IT resources. When it comes to cloud computing, you do not have to invest in hardware in advance or spend a lot of time managing it. Instead, you can provide the exact type and size of computing resources you need to implement your latest breakthrough idea or operate your IT department. You can access as many resources as you need almost immediately by paying only for what you use. Cloud computing provides an easy way to access servers, storage, databases and a full range of application services over the Internet. Cloud providers such as , , or “Swiss made” operate and manage the network-attached hardware needed for these application services, providing and using the resources you need through a web application. Amazon AWS Microsoft Azure Google Cloud Platform n’cloud.swiss Advantages of cloud computing, it’s not only about cost-efficiency The cloud has become a technology that influences everyone’s daily life. The adoption of solutions and services in the cloud present a number of advantages and benefits, among others: No more costs for operating and maintaining data centers: Focus on projects that differentiate your company in the market, not the infrastructure. Cloud computing allows to focus on customers rather than setting up, populating, and operating server cabinets. Speed and agility: In a cloud computing environment, new IT resources are always just a click away. The time required to deploy these resources will be reduced to minutes. This leads to a remarkable increase in the agility of the enterprise. In fact, costs and the expenditure for experiments and development decrease substantially. Go for variable costs rather than investment costs: Instead of investing heavily in data centers and servers, cloud computing makes it possible to work by paying only for the computing resources that are actually used. Flexible capacity: No more uncertainty in determining the infrastructure capacity requirements. Customers can access as much or as little capacity as needed and adjust their demand for short notice as desired. Source: Top 10 benefits of cloud computing Why Pakistan? Pakistan is a growing economy with many opportunities. In particular, with the regard to the Pakistani market, companies are known for their reluctance in investing huge capital to buy their own IT infrastructure independently although decision makers are aware of the importance of cutting-edge technologies businesses to compete within a competitive global market. Highly advanced technological and sophisticated environment without important cost is exactly what the cloud presents as one of its advantages. The likes of Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure have already launched their cloud services in Pakistan. Source: Pakistan To Sign The Information Technology Agreement To Stimulate Its IT Sector “The cloud services market in Pakistan is on the rise. As a result, it presents a huge potential for cloud providers. Safety, reliability and outstanding quality without the need for heavy capital investments in IT infrastructure is indeed something decision makers in Pakistan look for. The reluctance in investing in an own IT infrastructure is a meaningful sign for the cloud’s potential”, explains , Business Development Manager at n’cloud.swiss AG. Danish Ali Chaudhary From a more general point of view, Pakistan’s economy is the 25th largest in the world with a population of over 200 million. According to 36 percent of Pakistan’s overall economy is undocumented. When calculating per capita income these 36 percent are not taken into consideration. As one of the developing country, Pakistan is believed to have the potential of being one of the Next Eleven. Together with the BRICS, they are expected to become one of the world’s large economies in the 21st century. Pakistan Economist Source: Pakistan economy in 2018 — swinging between hope and despair

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While bilateral agreements with the USA will be unavoidable as a result of the CLOUD Act, the Swiss multicloud provider n’cloud.swiss AG is positioning itself as a serious European alternative to the leading cloud providers. When it comes to data protection and security, Germany is one of the most heavily regulated countries in the world. As early as 2015 Europe’s largest economy enforced its demands for data hosted within the EU. As a result Microsoft gave the Telekom subsidiary T-Systems a so-called “Data Trustee” role. Since then, T-Systems has controlled access to customer data in the hands of Microsoft. The Germany Cloud was born with it. This partnership with T-Systems should guarantee customers the security of local providers. At the same time, they were able to benefit from the versatility of the American giant’s cloud. In two data centers in Frankfurt am Main and in Magdeburg, the data of those customers who had opted for Microsoft’s Germany Cloud had a viable solution. The offer was primarily aimed at government-related institutions, banks or insurance companies. Now the surprising turnaround. Microsoft has announced it is now terminating the Data Trustee model with Deutsche Telekom/T-Systems and is no longer accepting new customers. Existing customers are not affected by this and can continue to use the Germany cloud without restriction. As an shows, there is virtually no demand for the German cloud. The latter has the big disadvantage of being more expensive than the “normal” cloud. In addition, the effort to get into the German cloud from Microsoft for customers and Microsoft itself is much higher. justifies the demise of Deutsche Cloud that customers want more functionality and connectivity to Microsoft’s global cloud infrastructure. The Germany Cloud is not able to do this with its special isolation. In addition, both the existing German Cloud and Microsoft’s planned new Azure Data Centers are compliant with GDPR requirements. article by Cloud Computing Insider The statement from Microsoft Microsoft Azure In the future, Microsoft plans more data centers in Germany. From next year, Microsoft Azure will be available from these data centers. Unlike Germany Cloud, Microsoft will manage all its data centers on its own, emphasizing this is in accordance with all local laws and regulations. The big question remains, however, to what extent the CLOUD Act, the American counterpart to the European GDPR, could thwart Microsoft’s efforts. The Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD) requires American Internet and IT companies to provide government agencies with access to stored data even if they are not stored in the United States. Conversely, foreign companies can use this method to gain access to data stored by US corporations abroad. The introduction of this law was accelerated to make it easier for US authorities to access data stored in US foreign countries. Customers are not required to be informed by law about data retrieval. GDPR vs. CLOUD Act While bilateral agreements with the US will be conceivable and unavoidable, the Swiss multicloud provider is a serious European alternative to the big cloud providers like Microsoft. Today, more than 65% of the cloud computing market is occupied by a few giants. The top 4 of the most important cloud platforms come from the USA. Serious competition comes only from China with Alibaba Cloud. The remaining market share of 35% is in the hands of thousands of cloud providers worldwide. n’cloud.swiss Unique selling points that distinguish n’cloud.swiss and set it apart from the competition are agility, flexibility, adaptability and the enormous degree of freedom. Customers can deploy a cloud according to individual needs, be it private, public or hybrid. The application possibilities are therefore practically unlimited, so that developers, software companies, SMEs, consulting companies up to large international corporations from all branches of industry or services can flexibly cover their cloud needs.

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Introducing the features of n’cloud.swiss also known as “Swiss made” alternative to the leading cloud providers à la Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. Reaching the summIT of cloud innovation with n’cloud.swiss (Image: ) www.beobachter.ch This article aims to provide you with an introductory information on what is capable of. The target is to present you as customer or reseller features, functionalities and applications. We will touch briefly each of these individual features to give you an overview to learn more about our cloud platform which we are aiming to establish as “Swiss made” alternative to the major cloud providers across the globe. The latter led by the likes of Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. All of these three are American cloud providers. For this reason, many experts see a huge potential for n’cloud.swiss to herald not only a new era in cloud computing but also to make us less dependent from American giants. In fact, outside the USA serious competition only comes from Chinese giant Alibabcloud. n’cloud.swiss n’cloud.swiss and the world’s leading cloud providers Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform & Co. The n’cloud.swiss ecosystem — a virtual skyscraper When n’cloud was introduced in 2009 as one of the first clouds in Europe, Founder and Chairman André Matter had the idea of creating a freedom to work anywhere. That is how n’cloud Virtual Office was born. Compared to an apartment that one can rent in a virtual skyscraper, customers cloud ask for as many rooms as they required. The Virtual Office provided everything necessary to enable their work environment. A perfectly organized workspace, integrating all of their workplaces and staff, including a caretaker watching over data and devices, as well as a housekeeper to maintain everything properly and tidy. A security service would guard the office day and night. What exactly is n’cloud? With n’cloud.swiss we went from renting apartments to renting the entire virtual skyscraper. Comparable to the architecture of multi-level load-bearing masonry buildings and structures, the n’cloud.swiss building is characterized by four setbacks. Architects would agree that setbacks help lower the building’s center of mass. Consequently, the building becomes more stable. Stability and reliability play an extremely important role. All our products enjoy “Swiss made” high quality standards in terms of security and reliability in setup and operation of fail-safe cluster-systems. Image: hdfootagestock.com An innovative cloud platform characterized by four different setbacks The foundation of n’cloud.swiss is Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). On top of that, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) represents the first setback. Software-as-a-Service follows in a step-like recession and forms the third main category of our cloud computing services. The building is completed by n’STORE, an innovative internal n’cloud.swiss application catalogue. n’cloud.swiss — “Swiss made” alternative to Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure & Co. Infrastructure-as-a-Service — Provide virtualized computing resources over the Internet On the infrastructure side, one can easily spin up virtual machines, run back-ups or make use of high available blocks and object storage. The idea here is to provide virtualized computing resources over the Internet, as it is the case with n’cloud Virtual Office. Platform-as-a-Service by n’cloud.swiss — Easy and fast transfers of existing developments from or to other major cloud platforms The platform side allows you can run all your EC2 instances. For example if you are an AWS user and look for an alternative, then you can simply with a few steps export your VMs from EC2 and export to n’cloud.swiss. Same thing applies for S3. What is extremely important to keep in mind is that we provide the complete AWS API stack for those services. In other words, whenever you are having your developments running on AWS and you have got your API calls running on a regular basis, you can simply copy-paste these codes by replacing the URLs by the ones provided by n’cloud.swiss. As a result, you can run exactly the same codes and workloads on our platform. Software-as-a-Service — Continuous Development-as-a-Service to revolutionize the cloud making possibilities become endless On the software side, a number of services is provided by n’cloud.swiss. These are amongst others Docker and Kubernetes-as-a-Service, as well as API Monitoring, Analytics Hadoop, VPN and Cloud Watch. A unique feature of n’cloud.swiss is Continuous Development-as-a-Service (CDaaS). The award winning service enables customers to use a complete CI/CD environment while reducing time and costs in the development process. The cost-efficient solution is based on automated n’cloud.swiss tools and can be deployed in any development or productive environment without external dependencies. In short, with CDaaS, the cloud is being revolutionized and the possibilities become endless. n’STORE — The marketplace for business applications and services Within the n’STORE, we offer more than 142 applications from 30 different IT categories “free and ready to go” as well as the opportunity to upload also other development applications and tools easily. As a further competitive advantage and innovation, this type of marketplace allows customers around the world to offer their applications and services in a shop-in-shop environment, as Apple or Google are already doing with their app stores. Customers who are seeking for new solutions/services can enter their requirements (e.g. new CRM, new website, development cases etc.) and receive quotes from vendors for the upcoming projects. An innovative cloud platform characterized by four different setbacks API connectivity and cloud exit strategy as the answer to vendor lock-in Finally yet importantly, two major things have to be mentioned regarding n’cloud.swiss. API connectivity for easy and fast transfers of existing developments from or to other major cloud platforms such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform takes into consideration the importance of having a cloud exit strategy. Nowadays, cloud customers are often face vendor lock-in. Also known as customer lock-in, they find themselves dependent on a vendor for products and services. . This is something we do not expect our customers to put up with. The cloud as the next big thing and digitization tool par excellence should be a real benefit without creating mistrust towards cloud providers. Our customers should stay with us because of the added value we provide them with and not because we make them stay against their will through customer lock-in. As a result, they become unable to use another vendor without substantial switching costs Image: https://hackernoon.com/is-cloud-computing-insidious-without-a-cloud-exit-strategy-c53e61641209 designing a cloud according to every customer’s specific requirements within the same product At n’cloud.swiss, it’s all about It is a well-known fact that companies with a cloud strategy in place run in or up to 4 clouds simultaneously. Either because they are independent from a single provider, due to legal reasons, services fitting better to certain requirements or just due to more attractive pricing models than others. Companies from the government, energy or financial sectors or the ones working with sensitive data, are not allowed to have their data in a cloud outside their territory. They either have to deploy their own cloud ON-PREM and/or work in public clouds within the territory. The size of the super cloud companies from the US and China and their impact create more and more various concerns. Even when a cloud of the majors is running in any other country than the US, the main questions arising are: Where is my data stored? Who does have access to it? These concerns are due to economic, commercial, legal or protective reasons. Even though most cloud platforms run unmanaged, customers are more and more seeking advice, support and want to learn how to use cloud computing services faster, more efficient and more advanced to make the most of it. Regarding this issue and maybe with the exception of large clients, there is a big lack in assistance for small and medium sized companies from any of the major cloud providers. Last but not least, customers want to have the freedom to decide where to run their cloud (geographic, security perspective) as well as operating them as a Public, Private or Hybrid version or in a combination of the three models. For this reason, we have equipped n’cloud.swiss with a multicloud character. The idea is to enable customers to design a cloud according to their specific requirements with the same product, either as a service model (public cloud), an on-prem version in existing IT environments (private cloud) or as a hybrid variant to bring together the advantages of both private and public cloud. The trend goes from «X-as-a-Service» to «Everything-as-a-Service» By observing the cloud industry, we immediately realize that technology in this industry, especially when it comes to software, it is particularly easy to that your innovation quickly becomes commodity for your competitors. The smartphone industry shows the same characteristics. It has become extremely difficult to stand out and excel competitors through unique innovations that are hard to copy. When it comes to the cloud market, the only option one can have is products or services that respond to a maximum amount of customers’ needs and expectations. Now, cloud providers should get away from that typical “X-as-a-service”. Customers should enjoy flexibility and decide freely how to integrate the cloud into their daily business. We believe that the cloud market might experience a notable change in competition. Multicloud could be the coming USP and a way of innovative differentiation. While the U.S. Congress recently approved the and strictly speaking opened a back door for the FBI, CIA, and NSA to intercept virtually anyone without any court order, the need for an alternative to the major cloud providers becomes probably greater than ever. A market that is dominated by four American (Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and IBM Softlayer) and one Chinese (Alibabcloud), definitely presents numerous possibilities for n’cloud.swiss AG. “Swiss made” high quality standards in terms of security and reliability in setup and operation of fail-safe cluster-systems might present for us a valuable competitive advantage. CLOUD Act for data stored overseas

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